Geoffrey Hughes

Mamdani actually did tho (free busses, rent freeze, more childcare) but the Dems are gonna take the wrong lesson (or maybe the right one from their donors' perspective) and just intone the word "affordability" over and over like a sacred mantra.

This context certainly puts the Nabokov reference in a certain sort of relief...

Tracks. Jordanian friend just got back from Damascus and the word he kept using was ta'ban (exhausted)...

Yeah, that seems to be where we're at

Vulgar Marxist interpretation of the welfare state as a tool for reproducing the means of production (in the form of workers) gets its perfect 'natural experiment' when elites suddenly start to imagine a world where they no longer need workers.

Wonder what role AI hype is playing in the wide scale shift we're seeing in Public Health policy towards accepting preventable deaths. Antivax becoming official policy in the US would be another example.

The factionalism angle is of course important too. This pits the more traditional, genteel wing of the movement against the upstart founded by a college dropout. One hopes to cow profs into handing out As while the other is concerned about their people never learning to do anything but tubthump.

Guy even points out that the student didn't actually cite the Bible so much as gesture at it. There's a good argument that it's really more viewpoint discrimination to pass this stuff through (as if conservative Christians are incapable of higher level argumentation) than to fail it on the merits...

Fundamental issue here is that university work can't just be about having opinions. We're either assessing on the basis of standards of evidence and argumentation or we're (in this guy's reactionary framing) handing out participation trophies...

We've truly strayed from the light when the head of the rival faction in college level conservative politics in Oklahoma seems to have a better grasp of the issues than a surprising number of BlueSky posters...

Book about the fallout from a beauty contest...

Friendship with biopolitics ended. Now necropolitics is our best friend.

Any they want to further erode relationships between individuals so that, eventually, we simply decide it’s just easier to cede decision-making to models, which they can sell us.

It's actually easy to work 18 hours a day when you count golfing, playing video games and rage posting as "work".

I probably don't follow this as closely as some, but it didn't strike me that there was anything new in what she said so while she might be responding strategically to recent developments, you wouldn't know it from her comments. I just think she likes being in front of a friendly crowd.

OP is like that meme about how the director should look straight into the camera and tell you what kind of communist you're supposed to be, but for conservatives.

Constantly reminded that for hundreds of years after the South American silver mines had essentially run out there continued to be vast resources pumped into the idea that previous regimes hadn’t been extractive enough rather than the idea that the value simply didn’t exist.

A lazy metric perhaps, but the second easiest way for a Jordanian news site to go viral on FB off of laugh reacts is to post about Abu Shabaab. (Number one way is posting a pic of Trump's ambassador to Jordan sporting his comically large beard)...

The idea here being that if you find the right "tribal" thug to run Palestine that all the problems the West has created for itself will disappear...

The mainstream framing of cultural appropriation inverts reality, making it seem like people who are trying to share their culture are the possessive ones when it's more often white commercial interests seeking to stifle the sharing of our common foodways.

Discourse on cultural appropriation has focused too much on the "cultural" part and not enough on "appropriation": the transformation of our commons into private property (in this case abrogating the way a billion people say vegetables for a white woman from cornwall with ties to the monarchy)...

Fact that the go-to example of cultural appropriation in the media is insufficiently yummy Bahn Mi sandwiches at Oberlin and not, like, this sort of travesty says a lot about our society's hostility to racial justice and substantive decolonization...

This is makes me wonder if the guy has been reading Pinker. He has a whole thing about Scots-Irish immigration as an explanation for uhh... inconvenient patterns of violence that mess with his thesis in "Better Angels"

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Thanks, this was driving me crazy because it sounded so familiar!

So true

Yeah it's extremely funny for a former first lady and secret of state to pull the Galileo gambit, but here we are!

A surprising number of people don't seem to know that Niemoller voted for the Nazis three times and was an enthusiastic antisemite. His red line was going after Jewish converts to Lutheranism.

a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms

you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization